Recent posts from: Leon1 – 7/20/2016


Day 12: Free Day (Volcano Boarding)


Suh GG Friends and Family! This is Kush and Kenny, aka the Swag Daddies, and we were the leaders for this day’s fun day: Volcano Boarding! Our day started early, with everyone waking up at 5:30 AM, and then we ate pancakes and eggs at the usual comedor. After we...

Day 11: Working Like a Local


Hello Everyone! Our names are Maria Perez and Elizabeth Ly. Today was Working Like a Local Day and as Lideres Del Dia, we started off our first task of the day by waking up our fellow glimpsers at 7:00 am. A couple of students made this task easier since they were...

Day 10: Global Business Day 7/29


Hey Everyone! This is Arzoo and Aditi and today was Global Business Day. Our day started off really early with a wake-up call at 6 am. Unfortunately two students were not feeling well so Elly had to stay behind during breakfast. For breakfast we joined all the tables...

Day 9: Education Day


Greetings Global Glimpse family and friends! Our name’s are Stella Nguyen and Gina Ni. Today we shared the role of El Lider Del Dîa. The theme for today was education and we visited the high school Modesto Amijo and shadowed Nicaraguan students. As co-leaders, we...

Day 8: Free Day


Hi GG friends and family! My name is Natalie Blumberg, and I was the student leader for our very first Free day! I think my role today was very different from the past student leaders because our plans were not as structured as most other days. There were no seminars,...

Day 7: Poverty


Millions of flies invading our face’s personal space, tens of children melting their way into our hearts, and a handful of mini heart attacks as we embraced the true Nicaraguan experience during our first public bus ride. Needless to say, Poverty Day was full of...

Day 6: Living like a local


Hello family and friends of L1C, your first co-leaders are Kali Tagomori-Lai and Hillary Huang from San Francisco. Today was our very first reality challenge, to experience life as a local. Everyone seemed hot, sweaty and exhausted but managed to pull through. As the...